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Terrified of Judicial Reform		May 2, 2008
Why the Chametz law matters		April 18, 2008
Too much deference		April 4, 2008
Why not in Joy?		March 19, 2008
Our Illiberal Court		March 4, 2008
On Reading Other Columnists		February 22, 2008
The Spiritual Response to the Holocaust		February 6, 2008
Each One Different		January 25, 2008
Prisoner of 'the fanaticism of reason'		January 11, 2008
Not a Doctor's Decision		December 27, 2007
A Test of Wills		December 13, 2007
Shmita is our test of faith		November 29, 2007
Passion, not poison		November 15, 2007
Jews as a Nation		October 31, 2007
The End of the Bargain		October 7, 2007
Saying Sorry		September 21, 2007
Think Again: Dangerous godlessness		September 7, 2007
Putting the Cats in Charge		August 24, 2007
Feldman's Bad Faith		August 10, 2007
Haredim in absentia		July 27, 2007
The law is an ass		July 12, 2007
Democracy and media manipulation		June 29, 2007
Chalk one up for Olmert		June 15, 2007
Remembering May 1967		June 12, 2007
Who is really to blame?		June 1, 2007
The Sages and Winograd		May 18, 2007
Mourning Works		May 3, 2007
Rabbis are not pooper-scoopers		April 20, 2007
True Freedom		April 5, 2007
Embrace the Abnormal		March 22, 2007
Smart Kids and Praise		March 21, 2007
Purim, passports & Ahmadinejad		March 8, 2007
On believers and empiricism		February 22, 2007
Islamists' Historiography		February 8, 2007
Free Will and its Deniers		January 26, 2007
Shmuley Boteach doesn't get it		January 23, 2007
Who really gives?		January 11, 2007
A Time to Hate		January 4, 2007
Ehud Who?		December 28, 2006
Impostors in hassidic garb		December 18, 2006
Mr. Dawkins Misfires		December 14, 2006
Worst-case scenario		November 30, 2006
Dale Carnegie next door		November 21, 2006
A plague on both your houses		November 16, 2006
Democrats go European		November 3, 2006
Losing old friends		October 25, 2006
Yakety-yak time again		October 20, 2006
Succot and the war in Lebanon		October 5, 2006
Talking nonsense about religion		October 2, 2006
Self-scrutiny and the national will		September 21, 2006
A General Theory of Just About Everything		September 8, 2006
Rot Spreads		August 25, 2006
The Haredi World Pitches In		August 11, 2006
Too Few Dead Jews		July 29, 2006
'Sexualizing' the public square		July 13, 2006
American Jewry's Cassandra		June 28, 2006
Free Speech for me but not for thee		June 16, 2006
It's not about numbers		June 1, 2006
Wolf pack goes meek		May 19, 2006
Dad		May 5, 2006
First come words		April 22, 2006
A test for Israel		March 23, 2006
Sociobiology isn't science		March 9, 2006
The real threat		February 23, 2006
Different rules for different folks		February 10, 2006
Picking on friends		January 26, 2006
Think Again: Charlie Darwin's angels		January 12, 2006
The Reform Movement’s Religious Reductionism		January 5, 2006
A Time to Hate		January 4, 2006
Think Again: Communal obligations		December 15, 2005
Minority Advantage		December 1, 2005
Toward a Renewed Jewish Identity		November 20, 2005
The beatification of Yitzchak Rabin		November 4, 2005
Rooting for the "Jews"		October 21, 2005
Do I Contradict Myself?		October 7, 2005
It’s Not a Hefkervelt		September 23, 2005
Our champion haters		September 9, 2005
Defending Tommy		August 26, 2005
Democracy deficit		August 12, 2005
Justices as Technocrats		July 29, 2005
Competing nightmares		July 15, 2005
Friends in high places		July 1, 2005
Conversion is not the answer		June 17, 2005
Jewish national existence and its enemies		May 20, 2005
Two funerals		May 6, 2005
Deformed "rights"		April 8, 2005
Lapid's Purimspiel		March 25, 2005
Sharing the secret		March 13, 2005
Portraying believers in literature		March 8, 2005
A Cassandra in his own country		February 25, 2005
For appearance's sake		February 10, 2005
Messianic furies again?		January 28, 2005
Nature's mirror		January 14, 2005
Efforts to crush haredi society will backfire		December 31, 2004
Wake-up call		December 17, 2004
Rule of the smarties		December 3, 2004
Self-annihilation		November 18, 2004
Telling it like it isn't		November 5, 2004
In praise of the President’s faith		October 22, 2004
An educational alternative		October 8, 2004
God-phobic Jews		September 23, 2004
Remember us for life		September 10, 2004
Two models of education		August 27, 2004
Lust Does Not Beget Love		August 13, 2004
Tommy misreads America		July 30, 2004
Look who's reaching out		July 15, 2004
Mazuz vs. the old elites		July 2, 2004
Think again: nullification hogwash		June 18, 2004
Think again: Shinui flips out		June 3, 2004
As the wheels turn		May 21, 2004
Two Prizes		May 7, 2004
Liberty, not libertinism		April 23, 2004
Remembering the past to preserve the future		April 2, 2004
The folly of pursuing numbers		March 26, 2004
The death of a myth		March 12, 2004
"The Passion" & the tar baby		February 27, 2004
An Israel prize for Jew hatred?		February 13, 2004
A battle lost before it begins		January 16, 2004
Interfaith dialogue - why not		January 2, 2004
Haredi schools work		December 19, 2003
Anything you want, just don't hate me		December 5, 2003
Whatever happened to shame?		November 21, 2003
Devaluing Democracy		November 9, 2003
Oy, beloved Cubs		October 23, 2003
A surprising survey		October 10, 2003
Two Thoughts for Rosh Hashana		September 26, 2003
Two anniversaries		September 19, 2003
A citizen above suspicion		September 12, 2003
A new look at the Haredim		September 5, 2003
History lesson		August 29, 2003
Late and unlamented		August 22, 2003
A new take on Holocaust rescue		August 15, 2003
Different stories for different folks		August 8, 2003
Sad stories make bad constitutions		July 25, 2003
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the goodest of them all?		July 18, 2003
Stop the demonstrations for G-d’s sake		July 11, 2003
Better free than a hero		July 4, 2003
Typologies of anti-Semitism		July 1, 2003
Noam Can’t Read (Or Do Math)		June 27, 2003
A vision in tatters		June 20, 2003
Lupolianski's challenge		June 13, 2003
Is the Jewish state losing its Jewishness?		June 5, 2003
More clique than court		May 30, 2003
What you see is what you get		May 23, 2003
Shutting the door to those who knock		May 16, 2003
Preserving the power of the Wall		May 9, 2003
Selling Levi's		May 2, 2003
How to understand freedom		April 18, 2003
In every generation there rises up against us . . .		April 11, 2003
The danger of oversell		April 4, 2003
The incitement double-standard		March 21, 2003
Too few Jews or too many?		March 14, 2003
Anti-war follies		March 6, 2003
Shinui’s Trojan Horse		February 28, 2003
Can we talk seriously about the haredim?		February 21, 2003
Confusing intellectuals with the facts		February 14, 2003
For Ilan Ramon: Why we cry more		February 7, 2003
Who will guard the guardians?		January 31, 2003
Who should be afraid of Tommy Lapid?		January 24, 2003
No triumph for Israeli democracy		January 17, 2003
Yossi Beilin's big new idea		January 10, 2003
To Err is to be a Columnist		January 3, 2003
Something rotten in the State of Israel		December 19, 2002
A Silver Lining for Dark Clouds?		December 13, 2002
Greek science and the science of the Torah		December 6, 2002
Mikveh revisited		November 29, 2002
To be a Republican		November 22, 2002
Who are the real givers?		November 15, 2002
A good cause can never justify forbidden means		November 8, 2002
Ethical Bloopers		November 1, 2002
Creative Jewish Accounting		October 25, 2002
But is it journalism?		October 18, 2002
Dangerous Winds A'blowin		October 11, 2002
G-d bless President Bush		October 4, 2002
Random thoughts before, during, and after Yom Kippur		September 20, 2002
The hope of Yom Kippur		September 13, 2002
Conservatism's incredible shrinking deity		September 6, 2002
Where did Elul go?		August 30, 2002
Israel's anti-religious demagoguery on the rise		August 23, 2002
The power of an idea		August 16, 2002
Rabbi Nachman Bulman: A Passionate Life		August 9, 2002
The limits of empathy		August 2, 2002
Pragmatism over purity		July 26, 2002
Too Much Mourning or Too Little?		July 19, 2002
Hatred breaks all protocol		July 12, 2002
Israel's best friend ever in the White House		July 5, 2002
And the study of Torah is equal to them all		June 28, 2002
Jewish law and neopaganism		June 21, 2002
Reform's deafening silence		June 14, 2002
Grateful for being chosen		June 7, 2002
Lessons from Sharon's big day		May 31, 2002
Mostly right; all wrong		May 24, 2002
Celebrating Shavuot Alone		May 16, 2002
Dogs and Haredim Keep Out		May 10, 2002
Europe's Poodles		May 3, 2002
No Psalms in Israel		April 26, 2002
Lessons still not learned		April 19, 2002
The New/Old Anti-Semitism		April 12, 2002
Time for miracles		April 5, 2002
We are still His Children		March 29, 2002
The worm eating away within		March 22, 2002
No absolute immunity		March 15, 2002
With our brothers in distress		March 8, 2002
Lehaim in Bnei Brak		March 1, 2002
A Purim story for our times		February 22, 2002
A Purim story for our times		February 22, 2002
Drunk with its own arrogance		February 15, 2002
The passing of a pure soul		February 8, 2002
Why the cabdrivers are right		February 1, 2002
From the Karine A toTulkarm		January 25, 2002
Shabbos, not `Shabbos-style’		January 18, 2002
Never on Sundays		January 11, 2002
Let democracy grow		January 5, 2002
Jewish day schools and their critics		December 28, 2001
My country, always wrong		December 21, 2001
It will take another miracle		December 14, 2001
Tom Friedman's latest big idea		December 7, 2001
Hypocrisy watch		November 30, 2001
A truth shaped by Torah		November 9, 2001
The glare of the truth		November 2, 2001
Rehavam Ze'evi was the last of a generation		October 26, 2001
Mr. Regev, have you no sense of decency left?		October 19, 2001
The Rationalist Folly		October 11, 2001
Restarting the process now is a deadly mistake		October 4, 2001
The Price of Vanity		September 28, 2001
Learning through fear		September 21, 2001
The day the world changed		September 14, 2001
A moment of truth for religious Zionism		August 31, 2001
Women in combat		August 24, 2001
This is war		August 17, 2001
Yes, Virginia, there is anti-Semitism		August 10, 2001
Gratitude grows on turning 50		August 3, 2001
Why we love to hate		July 27, 2001
Democracy vs. Rehavia		July 20, 2001
Was the EU bilked?		July 13, 2001
Contemplating Yonatan Netanyahu		July 6, 2001
The missing link		June 29, 2001
New demographic time bomb		June 22, 2001
Not G-d's scorekeeper		June 15, 2001
To live and die as Jews		June 8, 2001
Why Israel is always wrong		June 1, 2001
Shavuot and the limits of self		May 29, 2001
God didn't say 'Thou might want to...'		May 24, 2001
The all powerful A-G and other fallacies		May 18, 2001
The pitfalls of sex without love		May 11, 2001
Some opinions are more equal than others		May 4, 2001
How not to eat crow		April 27, 2001
Courts and tax policy: Slippery slope ahead		April 20, 2001
How dark is black?		April 13, 2001
A time to ask		April 6, 2001
The Jewish student--a minnow among sharks		March 30, 2001
Fighting with our hands tied behind our back		March 23, 2001
What we can learn from the Taliban		March 16, 2001
Purim Lessons		March 9, 2001
Time to sweat the small stuff		March 2, 2001
The great awakening		February 23, 2001
Why Israeli justice is suspect		February 16, 2001
Partners in creation		February 9, 2001
A frightening election		February 2, 2001
Shalom, Chaver		January 26, 2001
The Orthodox connection		January 19, 2001
Epistolary justice		January 12, 2001
Inconsistent justice		January 5, 2001
Lessons not learned		0 22, 2000
Failing the divine test		December 29, 2000
Floyd Patterson recidivus		December 15, 2000
The penny drops		December 8, 2000
Standing for whom		December 1, 2000
What we still have not learned from the Rabin assassination		November 10, 2000
New hope for Jonathan Pollard		November 3, 2000
Child-rearing issues are too important for the courts		November 2, 2000
A time for every purpose under heaven		October 20, 2000
Presumed guilty		October 17, 2000
Who are the baalei teshuva?		October 6, 2000
On selfishness		September 29, 2000
A flicker of hope		September 22, 2000
Back in the USSR		September 15, 2000
Unity at last		September 13, 2000
Lessons from the Elyagon fiasco		September 8, 2000
The great protectors		September 1, 2000
Lieberman is a symbol		August 25, 2000
What's wrong with Israeli teens		August 18, 2000
By the company he keeps		August 11, 2000
The last hurrah		August 4, 2000
Why Arafat won't compromise		July 28, 2000
No strike at Laniado		July 21, 2000
Process, not peace		July 14, 2000
Sincerity is not the issue		July 7, 2000
Misplaced generosity		July 1, 2000
Arson in Ramot		June 30, 2000
The feminine mystique		June 23, 2000
Calling a spade a spade		June 16, 2000
Too many mitzvot?		June 8, 2000
The cure for Jewish divorce: no more marriage		June 2, 2000
Will thee or won't thee, it's all the same		May 26, 2000
Wanted: a Churchill		May 18, 2000
Who should be embarrassed		May 12, 2000
Be sensitive to everyone, except...		May 5, 2000
Of Matzot and Mitzvot		April 21, 2000
In defense of the Tal Commission		April 21, 2000
Post-democracy		April 7, 2000
Who needs parents anyway		April 2, 2000
Miss Manners takes Rav Ovadia to the woodshed		March 31, 2000
Greeting the pope		March 24, 2000
The booby prize		March 10, 2000
Appearances do count		March 3, 2000
Show trial in Venice		February 25, 2000
Prayer power		February 19, 2000
Our government's thundering silence		February 18, 2000
History has spoken--will we listen?		January 27, 2000
Of ostriches and cavemen		January 21, 2000
When being right is wrong		January 14, 2000
Misplaced generosity		January 7, 2000
The quest for completion		December 31, 1999
Love sweeter than wine		December 24, 1999
Crocodile tears?		December 17, 1999
Freedom of thought at risk		December 11, 1999
The incredible attraction		November 26, 1999
Lives at stake--where's Israel?		November 19, 1999
Are haredim lousy parents?		November 5, 1999
Our new mixed multitude		November 3, 1999
The Moratora affair revisited		October 29, 1999
Who really cares		October 22, 1999
A court of one		October 15, 1999
The stealth constitution		October 12, 1999
Many ways to be a Jew		October 9, 1999
True Jewish rejoicing		September 24, 1999
A once-a-year opportunity		September 17, 1999
Turbine controversy [II]		September 3, 1999
Unholy alliance		August 27, 1999
Of turbines and power		August 20, 1999
Tragic choices		August 13, 1999
Abolish the Three Weeks?		July 16, 1999
Memories of Entebbe		July 9, 1999
Back to the ghetto in Rehovot		July 2, 1999
Heads I win, tails you lose		June 11, 1999
A look at the bright side		June 4, 1999
It ain't easy being haredi		May 28, 1999
The leadership we deserve		May 14, 1999
Sharansky is still a hero		May 7, 1999
Why I love Ari, Yuval, and Dede		April 30, 1999
If I ruled the world		April 16, 1999
Who knows one		March 31, 1999
Dr. Joe, we owe you		March 26, 1999
Regarding the rift		March 19, 1999
Another story the media missed		March 12, 1999
Get a hold of yourself		March 5, 1999
Topsy-Turvy		February 26, 1999
The real issue		February 12, 1999
Divine presence or photo-op		February 5, 1999
Keep the money; use it at home		January 29, 1999
Those ornery Orthodox: Myth and reality		January 22, 1999
What's it all about?		January 15, 1999
Bring Jonathan home		January 8, 1999
Another vision of leadership		January 1, 1999
Yossi Sarid, hypocrite		December 25, 1998
Chanukah parallels		December 18, 1998
Confessions of a haredi dad		December 11, 1998
Happiness ain't fun		December 4, 1998
There is no continuity without content		November 20, 1998
What? Me think?		November 13, 1998
Yigal Amir: Religious fanatic or Zionist		November 6, 1998
Who is being Messianic?		October 30, 1998
Save the Zionist dream		October 23, 1998
To build a new nation		October 16, 1998
Succot--the time of our rejoicing		October 2, 1998
Coming clean at Yom Kippur		September 25, 1998
Looking within beginning anew		September 20, 1998
Joseph Lieberman, Jewish hero		September 18, 1998
One Jew, wanting to marry another Jew, is not racist		September 11, 1998
Back to school		September 4, 1998
The fragility of trust		August 28, 1998
Vignettes from the Jewish wasteland		August 14, 1998
Seffi's asses		August 7, 1998
Happy Tisha B'Av		July 31, 1998
A mitzva for everyone		July 24, 1998
On the fence at Yale		July 17, 1998
Reform are not martyrs		July 10, 1998
Anti-Semitism without anti-Semites		July 3, 1998
Why the haredim are Right		June 26, 1998
Boomerang Barak		June 19, 1998
Clearing the air		June 12, 1998
In defense of Uri Porat		June 5, 1998
A 'Shtadlan' for our times		May 22, 1998
A moment of silence		April 29, 1998
An enemy everyone can hate		April 24, 1998
For this we yearned?		April 15, 1998
The poor bread of Pesach		April 10, 1998
Teach your children		March 27, 1998
Heed the heart		March 20, 1998
Not quite so fast		March 13, 1998
The first mitzva		March 6, 1998
Reflections while cleaning for Pesach		March 4, 1998
He's a somebody		February 27, 1998
Of yuppies and haredim		February 20, 1998
A question of rabbinical conscience		February 13, 1998
Bill's problem and ours		February 6, 1998
A tale of two religions		January 30, 1998
What if G-d really exists?		January 16, 1998
The ultimate Jewish pluralists		January 9, 1998
Are yeshiva students dumb?		January 2, 1998
What is Chanukah about		December 26, 1997
The limits of family		December 19, 1997
A question of tactics		December 12, 1997
Some myths about tolerance		November 31, 1997
The need to apologize		November 28, 1997
Free the Yale five		November 21, 1997
Court run amok		November 14, 1997
No room for compromise		October 24, 1997
Yom Kippur reflections		October 10, 1997
The tie that binds		October 1, 1997
The man who would be king		September 26, 1997
Beilin's latest folly		September 19, 1997
The blasts of repentance		September 12, 1997
Truth with a capital T		September 5, 1997
The will to disbelieve		August 29, 1997
Haredim in the zoo		August 22, 1997
Confrontation: the whole point		August 15, 1997
No rest, no peace		August 8, 1997
Bite your tongue		August 1, 1997
Pick and choose your civil liberties		July 25, 1997
Let everyone be happy		July 18, 1997
The toad that won't disappear		July 11, 1997
The final exile of Jews among Jews		July 4, 1997
Do-it-yourself Torah		June 17, 1997
Spooked by the Haredim		May 23, 1997

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